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==Education and career== |
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Dr. Flegg received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Queensland University of Technology in 2009. Her dissertation, "''Mathematical Modelling of Chronic Wound Healing''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Flegg|first=Jennifer|title=Mathematical Modelling of Chronic Wound Healing|url=https://eprints.qut.edu.au/40164/1/Jennifer_Flegg_Thesis.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>''",'' was supervised by Dr. Sean McElwain. From 2010 to 2013, she was a researcher at the University of Oxford developing mathematical models for the spread of resistance to antimalarial drugs. From 2014 to early 2017, she was a mathematical lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University. In May of 2017, she joined the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne as a senior lecturer in Applied Mathematics and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. |
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<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Flegg|first=Jennifer|date=November 2009|title=Mathematical Modelling of Chronic Wound Healing|url=https://eprints.qut.edu.au/40164/1/Jennifer_Flegg_Thesis.pdf|journal=}}</ref> |
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Dr. Flegg is an expert in the field of mathematical biology, with special focus in infectious disease epidemiology, wound healing and tumor growth. |
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Flegg received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University in 1992. Her dissertation, Asymptotic Analysis of Random Wave Equations, was supervised by Bernard J. Matkowsky. From 1997 to 2002, she was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. She is an expert on stochastic and nonlinear dynamics, mathematical modelling, asymptotic methods, and industrial mathematics.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jennifer Flegg|url=https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/jennifer-flegg/|access-date=2021-04-08|language=en-AU}}</ref> |
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As of 2020, Dr. Flegg also serves as an Editorial Board member for PLOS Computational Biology, eLife and the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. |
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==Awards and Honors== |
==Awards and Honors== |
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In 2020, Dr. Flegg was awarded the JH Michell Medal for excellence in research by ANZIAM (Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics), as well as the Christopher Heyde Medal from the Australian Academy of Science and the Society of Mathematical Biology. |
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Kuske was awarded a Sloan Fellowship in 1992 and was made a Canada Research Chair in 2002. |
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== References == |
== References == |
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Revision as of 23:45, 8 April 2021
Jennifer Flegg | |
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| Alma mater | Queensland University of Technology |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Dr. Sean McElwain |
Jennifer Flegg (born 1965) is an Australian mathematician and is an Associate Professor of applied mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne.
Education and career
Dr. Flegg received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Queensland University of Technology in 2009. Her dissertation, "Mathematical Modelling of Chronic Wound Healing[1]", was supervised by Dr. Sean McElwain. From 2010 to 2013, she was a researcher at the University of Oxford developing mathematical models for the spread of resistance to antimalarial drugs. From 2014 to early 2017, she was a mathematical lecturer in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University. In May of 2017, she joined the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne as a senior lecturer in Applied Mathematics and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020.
Dr. Flegg is an expert in the field of mathematical biology, with special focus in infectious disease epidemiology, wound healing and tumor growth.
As of 2020, Dr. Flegg also serves as an Editorial Board member for PLOS Computational Biology, eLife and the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.
Awards and Honors
In 2020, Dr. Flegg was awarded the JH Michell Medal for excellence in research by ANZIAM (Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics), as well as the Christopher Heyde Medal from the Australian Academy of Science and the Society of Mathematical Biology.
References
- ^ Flegg, Jennifer. "Mathematical Modelling of Chronic Wound Healing" (PDF).
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